Manuscript Status: Finished
Mentor: Stacey Trombley & Rebecca Sky
Mentee: Rebecca Schaeffer
Title: QUEEN OF PARTS
Category: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Dark Fantasy
Word count: 85,000
Pitch:
Nita doesn’t murder monsters and sell them online.
Her mother does that.
Nita just dissects and packages their bodies. But when her mother brings a live one home, Nita decides to follow her conscience and help him escape — and ends up sold on the black market in his place.
DEXTER meets THIS SAVAGE SONG.
Excerpt:
Nita stared at the dead body lying on the kitchen table. Middle-aged, and in the place between pudgy and overweight, he wore a casual business suit and a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with silver handles that blended into the gray at his temples. He was indistinguishable on the outside from any other human — the inside, of course, was a different matter.
“Another zannie?” Nita scowled at her mother and crossed her arms as she examined the body. “That’s not even Peruvian. I thought we moved to Peru to hunt South American unnaturals? Chupacabras and pishtacos and whatever.”
It wasn’t that zannies were common, but Nita had dissected an awful lot of them during the months she and her mother spent in Southeast Asia last year. She’d been looking forward to dissecting something new. If she wanted to cut up the same unnaturals as usual, she would have asked to stay with her dad in the States and work on unicorns.
Her mother shrugged, draping her jacket over a chair. “I saw a zannie, so I killed it. I mean, it was right in front of me. How could I resist?” Her mother’s black and red striped bangs fell forward as she dipped her head and half-smiled.
Nita shifted her feet, looking at the corpse again. She sighed. “I suppose you’ll want me to dissect and package it for sale?”
“Good girl.” Her mother grinned.
I’d love to have a look. Please send the manuscript along to me at jmccarthy@dystel.com. Thanks!
This is so creepy and fantastic and I love your comps! Please send the full manuscript as a Word doc to reneequery@ktliterary.com.
I very much need to read this. Send over the full to pam@d4eo.com
I love this voice, and the dark premise is right up my creepy alley. Please send the full manuscript (as well as a synopsis if you have one) to lauren@triadaus.com with “Pitch Wars: [YOUR TITLE]” as the subject line. Please also include your query in the body of the email. I look forward to reading!
-Lauren Spieller, TriadaUS
Wow!!! I love this. Excited to read more. Please send the full manuscript to Suzie at newleafliterary dot com with the query pasted into the first page and REQUESTED PITCH WARS in the subject line. Thanks!
Hi Rebecca, this is the perfect blend of dark and accessible that I adore. Would love to see the full, so please send as a word doc attachment with the query in the body of the email and subject line: PitchWars Query: QUEEN OF PARTS to annie@foliolit.com. Excited to continue reading!
Best,
Annie
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Annie Hwang
Folio Literary Management
I’m interested in seeing more of this! Please send the query + the full manuscript (as a word document) to rachel(at)lperkinsagency(dot)com with Pitch Wars: TITLE in the subject line. Thanks!
Wow, what a fantastic and creepy premise. I’d love to read on! Please send the query and full MS to Rebecca@reesagency.com, with PITCH WARS REQUEST in the subject line. Thanks so much!
I would love to see more of this!! Please send the full manuscript + your query to leon@lperkinsagency.com. Thanks!
I’d like to see more! Please send 50 pages to submissions@janklow.com with query, and please include “Pitch Wars – Stefanie Lieberman” in the subject line.
I’m super intrigued to see what happens! I’d love to see the first 50 pages. Please send it + query + synopsis to LBiagi (at) jvnla (dot) com, with Pitch Wars in the subject line. Excited to read!
I’d love to see more of this! Please send the full manuscript as a Word doc or PDF with your query in the body of the email to melissa@rpcontent.com, and be sure to put “Pitch Wars” in the subject line.
Thanks!
Melissa Nasson
Rubin Pfeffer Content
I’d love to see more of this! Please send a query, synopsis and first 25 pages to chquery@mcintoshandotis.com. Please mark “Pitch Wars request” in the subject line. –Christa Heschke
I’d love to read more! Please send the full manuscript to whitley@inklingsliterary.com with “Pitch Wars: [TITLE]” as the subject line. And if you wouldn’t mind, could you please include your query on the first page of the word doc?. I look forward to reading!
Morbid and wonderful! Can we please see more? Please send a query with the first 3 chapters to acquisitions@curiosityquills.com with ‘Pitch Wars’ in the subject line.